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made other performance improving changes. This improves the performance of last(1) by as much as 32 times in some cases, and in more typical cases is about twice as fast. Added a BUGS section to the manual page to describe the behavior of last(1) when a login shell terminates abnormally (and thus doesn't write a logout record to the wtmp file).
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.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993
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.\" @(#)last.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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.\"
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.Dd June 6, 1993
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.Dt LAST 1
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.Os BSD 4
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm last
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.Nd indicate last logins of users and ttys
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm last
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.Op Fl Ns Ar n
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.Op Fl f Ar file
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.Op Fl h Ar host
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.Op Fl t Ar tty
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.Op user ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm Last
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will list the sessions of specified
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.Ar users ,
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.Ar ttys ,
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and
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.Ar hosts ,
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in reverse time order. Each line of output contains
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the user name, the tty from which the session was conducted, any
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hostname, the start and stop times for the session, and the duration
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of the session. If the session is still continuing or was cut short by
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a crash or shutdown,
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.Nm last
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will so indicate.
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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width indent-two
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.It Fl f Ar file
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.Nm Last
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reads the file
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.Ar file
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instead of the default,
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.Pa /var/log/wtmp .
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.It Fl Ar n
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Limits the report to
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.Ar n
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lines.
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.It Fl t Ar tty
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Specify the
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.Ar tty .
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Tty names may be given fully or abbreviated, for example,
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.Dq Li "last -t 03"
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is
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equivalent to
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.Dq Li "last -t tty03" .
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.It Fl h Ar host
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.Ar Host
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names may be names or internet numbers.
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.El
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.Pp
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If
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multiple arguments are given, the information which applies to any of the
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arguments is printed, e.g.,
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.Dq Li "last root -t console"
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would list all of
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.Dq Li root Ns 's
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sessions as well as all sessions on the console terminal. If no
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users, hostnames or terminals are specified,
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.Nm last
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prints a record of
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all logins and logouts.
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.Pp
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The pseudo-user
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.Ar reboot
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logs in at reboots of the system, thus
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.Dq Li last reboot
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will give an indication of mean time between reboot.
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.Pp
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If
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.Nm last
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is interrupted, it indicates to what date the search has
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progressed. If interrupted with a quit signal
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.Nm last
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indicates how
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far the search has progressed and then continues.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /var/log/wtmp -compact
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.It Pa /var/log/wtmp
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login data base
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr lastcomm 1 ,
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.Xr utmp 5 ,
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.Xr ac 8
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.Sh BUGS
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If a login shell should terminate abnormally for some reason, it is likely
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that a logout record won't be written to the wtmp file. In this case,
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.Nm last
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will indicate the logout time as "shutdown".
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.Sh HISTORY
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.Nm Last
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appeared in
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.Bx 3.0 .
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